Deals of the week - September 2 2013

September 01 2013

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Acquisition	$10.4 billion	Amgen	Onyx Pharmaceuticals	Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer	Goodwin Procter
Acquisition	$5.2 billion	Deutsche Wohnen	GSW Immobilien	Sullivan & Cromwell	Hengeler Mueller
Acquisition	$3.1 billion	Sinopec Group	Apache		Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Jared Rusman
Acquisition	$1.9 billion	Baidu	91 Wireless	Davis Polk & Wardwell
Acquisition	$1.6 billion	Atlas Copco	Edwards Group		Weil, Gotshal & Manges / Davis Polk & Wardwell
Merger	$1.6 billion	Dole Food	David H Murdock	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher / Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer, David Passey	Paul Hastings
Merger	$220 million	Cullen/Frost Bankers	WNB Bancshares	Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer	Haynie Rake Repass & Lowry / Atkins, Hollmann, Jones, Peacock, Lewis & Lyon
Acquisition	$200 million	C.R. Bard	Medafor	Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Helyn Goldstein	Fredrikson & Byron
Acquisition	$143.9 million	Keppel REIT Management	8 Exhibition Street	King & Wood Mallesons
Acquisition	$104.5 million	Garda World Security	G4S Cash Solutions	Stikeman Elliott - John Lorito
Acquisition	Undisclosed	ARM Limited	Sensinode	Hannes Snellman / Davis Polk & Wardwell
Acquisition	Undisclosed	CPG International	Ares Management / Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	Sullivan & Cromwell - Andrew Mason, David Spitzer
Acquisition	Undisclosed	Facebook	Mobile Technologies	Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern, Larissa Neumann, Julia Ushakova-Stein
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Senior Notes Offering	$500 million	Moody's	JP Morgan / Merrill Lynch	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus
Block Trade	$276 million	PDC Energy	Merrill Lynch	Davis Graham & Stubbs	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr

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